Years afterward she said to a friend that the severest trial of her whole life was in leaving her child alone in that wild, desolate place.

It seemed as if the little one must feel the desertion.
At the town of A-- Parker and his family obtained accommodations in a poor tavern, where they remained for six weeks, during which time every one suffered more or less severely from fevers, contracted in the poisoned atmosphere in which they had been residing.

During the time that Parker remained at A-- he obtained more information in regard to Western life, and the prospects of a man like himself getting ahead, as a farmer on wild lands than he had ever before had.

He learned, too, some particulars about his own farm, of which he was before ignorant.

All along the river upon which it was situated, the fall sickness swept off every new-comer, and was in very many instances fatal to the oldest residents.